Table 3 Questions for a clinic considering OBOT adoption
From: Financial sustainability of payment models for office-based opioid treatment in outpatient clinics
1. If your organization is primarily paid on a fee-for-service basis |
 a. Will payers increase your billable rates to cross-subsidize non-billable OBOT services? |
 b. Will your OBOT service volume be sufficient to provide revenue that could support the salary of staff delivering non-billable services? |
 c. Will OBOT adoption result in additional volume of other billable services (e.g. pharmacy) that could cross-subsidize non-billable OBOT services? |
 d. Are other subsidies available to support non-billable OBOT services? (e.g. grants from the state or from HRSA) |
2. If your organization is not primarily paid on a fee-for-service basis |
 a. Are your non-fee-for-service payment rates (e.g. bundled payments) adequate to pay for all needed OBOT services? |
 b. Are other subsidies available to supplement the payment rates? (e.g. grants from the state or from HRSA) |